Horse Opera
Moyra Davey’s raw confessional situates the filmmaker and her extended community of friends alongside tributes, homages, and citations...
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A Super-8 essay film about New York City bedrock, excrement, and money
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Shot over the course of three years, the video comprises a series of vignettes that reflect upon reading, nostalgia, and psychoanalysis.
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Hemlock Forest traces the worlds of Karl Ove Knaugsard and Chantal Akerman as Davey considers the implications of her son leaving home and...
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Following Jean-Pierre Gorin, and other New Wave filmmakers, Moyra Davey’s transparency allows us to explore the space between the text and the...
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A wedding party reflected through the work of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
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Moyra Davey's new 28-minute video is a lyrical film essay that interweaves various biographies-including those of Derek Jarman, poet Anne Sexton...
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In her latest home recorded essay film, Canadian artist Moyra Davey explores Québec’s knotty history of oppression through an array of perspectives...
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Moyra Davey's video My Necropolis pairs footage of cemeteries in Paris with attempts at interpreting an enigmatic line from a letter that Walter...
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Filmed almost entirely in the artist’s New York apartment, Moyra Davey draws parallels between her familial experience and the family of...
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